The Engine Stopped. The Volcano Didn't.

A near-crash above Hilo in 1997 wasn’t an accident.
It was an invitation.

We were banking south over Hilo Bay in a rickety Piper plane 
— the late sun turning the ocean a deeper blue below, Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa rising through the clouds like sleeping gods.

Then a splutter. A shake. And silence.
The pilot turned in his seat. “Oh, this happened earlier. Don’t worry, it started right away.”
He tried the engine. Not a cough. Not a sputter. Just the dry cranking of a motor that had decided it was done.
I looked out the window at the beauty below me — and stilled the fear.

It did not feel like my time. It felt like a sign.
That was August 18th, 1997. I had been on the Big Island for one week.
My question to the ʻāina was simple and enormous: Is Hawaiʻi my home?
The volcano answered.
It has been answering ever since.

This Book Is That Answer — 28 Years in the Making

From Corporate Burnout to Cosmic Clarity book cover featuring Hawaii's sacred volcanoes—a guide to breaking free from burnout through longevity coaching and ancestral wisdom

typo: Attitude, not Altitude

The Engine Stopped. The Volcano Didn't.

High Attitude Hiking the Hawaiian Maunas: From Corporate Burnout to Cosmic Clarity — A Rebel’s Guide to Thriving in Perilous Times is not a trail map.

It is a field manual for anyone who has ever stood at the edge of something enormous — a career collapse, a health crisis, a life that no longer fits — and felt the pull of something wilder, clearer, and more alive on the other side.

The Maunas are the laboratory. Your body is the experiment. The journey — not the summit — is the revelation.

What You’ll Discover in Chapter 1 — Free

Chapter 1 opens on that Piper plane above Hilo Bay. It ends with a decision that changed everything.

Inside, you’ll find:

  • Why a near-crash above an active volcano became a 28-year apprenticeship with the ʻāina
  • The difference between conquering a volcano and listening to one — and why it changes how you move, breathe, and think
  • What happens to your cellular voltage, your nervous system, and your biological sovereignty when you stop performing and start paying attention
  • The decades after I stopped being a GE development engineer — and finally arrived a Longevity Architect

This is where the journey begins. Not at the trailhead. Not at the crater rim.

Here. With a quiet engine. And a volcano that refused to let me leave.

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– The plane engine that died 3000 feet over Hilo—and the omen that changed everything
– Why surrender isn’t weakness (it’s the most powerful stance you can take)
– How to recognize the signs your body and intuition are sending (before it’s too late)
– The hidden cost of saying “yes” to everyone but yourself
– Why your ancestors hold the keys to your own resilience in uncertain times
– What happens when you finally stop running and start listening

Release date: May 27, 2026 — Benedick’s 75th birthday.
Waitlist Warriors get first access.

The Engine Stopped. The Volcano Didn't.

Who This Book Is For?

You don’t have to be a hiker.

You don’t have to have been to Hawaiʻi.

You don’t have to have survived a plane that lost its engine over an active volcano.

But if you’ve ever felt the sick-care system couldn’t give you what you actually needed — if you’ve ever suspected that the answers to your health, your clarity, and your next chapter are somewhere outside the boardroom, the hospital, and the algorithm — this book was written for you.

Specifically, it’s for:

  • High-achieving professionals who built the career and lost the body, the clarity, or the will to keep performing
  • Executives in transition who know the next chapter has to be different — they just don’t know what different looks like yet
  • Adventure-seekers who want more than scenery — who want the volcano to mean something
  • Anyone drawn to Hawaiʻi not as a vacation, but as a calling

The Maunas don’t care about your résumé. They care about your attitude.

About Benedick Howard

I am a former GE development engineer turned Longevity Architect, with over 40 years spanning electro-bio-physics, SCENAR bioelectric therapy, strategic fasting, Ashtanga yoga, and circadian biology.

I live off-grid in Kurtistown on Hawaiʻi’s Big Island. I have hiked Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa more times than I can count — often fasting, always intentional, frequently stopping well short of the summit because the journey was already complete.

I founded the Ageless Warrior Alliance for one reason: because biological sovereignty is not a luxury. It is a birthright. And the volcano taught me that long before any clinical study confirmed it.

Biology is physics first.

The volcano understood that before I did

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– The plane engine that died 3000 feet over Hilo—and the omen that changed everything
– Why surrender isn’t weakness (it’s the most powerful stance you can take)
– How to recognize the signs your body and intuition are sending (before it’s too late)
– The hidden cost of saying “yes” to everyone but yourself
– Why your ancestors hold the keys to your own resilience in uncertain times
– What happens when you finally stop running and start listening

High Attitude Hiking the Hawaiian Maunas releases May 27, 2026.

Waitlist Warriors receive:

  • Instant access to Chapter 1
  • Pre-launch field dispatches from the Mauna
  • First notification when the book goes live

Priority access to the companion Big Island Biological Reset retreat

Go forth, question everything.

Many mahalos from Hawaiʻi. Warrior out.

— Benedick Howard

Longevity Architect | Founder, Ageless Warrior Alliance | Kurtistown, Hawaiʻi